MORTALITY TN THE METROPOLIS.
Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years.
Ten Weeks Week of 1839-49. of RISO.
• tymotic Diaeases 1657 lit7 Dropsy, (knee., sad-otker diseases of uncertain or variable seat 507 29
Tubercular Diseases 1909 171 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Ifarromr, Norval, and Senses 1109 109
- Mimeses of the Heart and Blood-vessels 259 as Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 1136 145 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 00gans of Digestion 576 61
Diseases of the Kidneys, ibc 80 8
-Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ke 89 5 Rheumatism, diseases of the Boned, Joints, &c r 7.10 Miscases of the skin, Cellular Tissue, Sc. 8 4
Malformations ---- . • • •-• ....... 243
Mremature Birth 210 .... 28 Atrophy 119 .... 14 Age 511 .... 31
Sudden - ..... Ylolenue, PriThDOO,Cold, and Intempenuice
- _ Total (lachuliag unspecified causes) 8681 850
'The corrected average for the week would have been 947; so that the mortality was 67 below the mean range. The mortality, however, has been gradually, rising since the third week in April ; the deaths for the subsequent weeks have been 803, 829, 857, and last week 880, as above. The deaths from the class of diseases including bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma, were 145 against a corrected average of 124; those from consumption, on the other hand, were but 124 against a corrected average of 154.
At Greenwich the mean atmospheric pressure was 29.817; temperature, 49.2'-less by 3.2' than a seven-years average.
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